About the CRC

The Clinical Research Center (CRC)  was previously the General Clinical Research Center, funded by the NIH in excess of forty years. The CRC's resources and personnel support clinical research studies for investigators from UTHSC, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the VA Medical Center, Regional One Health, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Southern School of Optometry, The University of Memphis, and the Medical Education Research Institute.

The CRC is on the 8th floor in the East Wing of Methodist University Hospital, the primary and most comprehensive location of Methodist Healthcare facilities in the area. The central location within the Memphis Medical District allows excellent access by clinical investigators, students and trainees on the UTHSC campus as well as those from partner institutions and organizations.

The CRC has approximately 6,750 SF of space and is primarily an outpatient facility. It has nine examination rooms, a three bed patient bay, an exercise physiology room, a medical records room, a bio-nutrition teaching lab, a dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) procedure room, a processing laboratory, storage rooms in addition to six offices for the staff members. The CRC also houses an environmental chamber (cold room) that is used as a psychological/physical stressor to produce systemic vasoconstriction.

To meet the needs of clinical and translational investigators at UTHSC, the CRC uses a multi-prong approach that includes development of a new state of the art outpatient Central CRC. The CRC is in the planning stage of the CRC outpatient unit, creating 19,500 SF of modern and participant friendly space. The current UTHSC Clinical Research Center will be renovated to support high acuity outpatient and inpatient studies as well as Phase I Clinical Trials. This new venue will also be conducive to greater data and quality assurance monitoring of all clinical research studies and will provide a higher standard for the protection of human subjects in clinical research protocols.

We believe this transformed environment will improve the translation of basic science research discoveries into effective clinical applications that can be widely disseminated to improve public health.